Original Pilipino Music is having its moment — not just at home, but on global streaming platforms, international festival lineups, and the pages of publications from Pitchfork to NME. These ten artists are the ones leading the charge.
Ben&Ben has been impossible to ignore since their debut album Limasawa Street became the best-selling Filipino album in a decade. The nine-piece folk-pop collective blends acoustic warmth with sweeping orchestral arrangements, their Tagalog and Filipino lyrics resonating with a diaspora that spans five continents. Their 2025 world tour sold out venues in Los Angeles, Dubai, and London.
BINI is the girl group redefining what OPM pop can be. Where previous Philippine pop acts looked primarily to Korean or American templates, BINI is unapologetically Filipino — their choreography, their styling, and their music drawing from local folk traditions while remaining thoroughly contemporary.
Arthur Nery has built one of the most devoted fanbases in Philippine music with his deeply personal R&B-influenced songwriting. His voice — warm, aching, intimate — translates across languages in a way that has earned him listeners across Southeast Asia and among the Filipino diaspora worldwide.
SB19 — the internationally recognized P-pop quintet — continue their remarkable global trajectory. Their A'TIN fandom has expanded to over 60 countries. Their recent collaboration with a major Korean entertainment company is being watched closely as a potential model for Philippine artists seeking to break the Asian pop ceiling.
Ice Seguerra's return to recording after a decade-long hiatus produced one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2025 — a meditation on identity, belonging, and the complexity of modern Filipino life that reminded listeners why he had been missed.
The other five artists on this list — Zild Benitez, Clara Benin, Unique Salonga, Leanne & Naara, and the experimental producer Manila Sanctuary — each represent a different facet of what Filipino music is becoming: more confident, more globally connected, and more distinctly itself than at any point in its history.
OPM is not a moment. It's a movement.
